About Antonym.
A house built for
literature to
travel.
Founded in Kolkata. Working globally.
Antonym Global Publishing is an independent publisher and rights house connecting literature across languages, markets and publishing cultures.
WHO WE ARE
Books travel.
We build the bridges.
Antonym sees a world in which a poem written in Cuttack can be read in Havana, a novel written in Guwahati can be discussed in Riyadh, a short story written in Chennai can move a reader in Milan, and a folk performance rehearsed in a Bengal village residency can be staged in front of an audience that has never heard the language it is sung in.
Antonym's vision is a genuinely two-way corridor between the Indian subcontinent and the world — Bengali, Hindi, Assamese, Odia, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam flowing outward into English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Italian, French, and German, and those literatures and performance traditions flowing back into India's own.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
The original language is where the work begins.
International publishing is where its next life begins.
Our job is not simply to move a book from one market to another. It is to protect what makes the work itself worth moving — its voice, context and literary character — while finding the readers and publishing partners who can give it another life.
THE MODEL
One house,
working through many.
Eyes and hands in every place literature is written.
We build presence at source, not distance from it — through collaborating publishing houses in key markets, and subsidiaries where the case for one is strong enough.
CLOSE TO THE WORK
Being near where a literature is created means we catch what a work needs before it travels — context, nuance, the things that don't survive a cold handoff.
ONE HOUSE, MANY PARTNERS
Antonym Global Publishing is an independent publisher collaborating with an expanding network of independent publishing houses worldwide — building, title by title and market by market, a network built for two-way exchange rather than one-way export.
OUR ECOSYSTEM
Antonym Global Publishing is part of a wider ecosystem of organisations that build culture, capability and community around literature.
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THE ANTONYM PRESS
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WHERE WE ARE
Founded in Kolkata, India.
Functioning globally.
Our editorial and production backbone is at Salt Lake, Kolkata. Our global network is managed through Antonym Global Publishing, based out of Florida, USA, with collaborations across Mexico and Colombia, and a growing network of publishers of record.
We're always open to conversations about books, collaborations and ideas.
OUR TEAM
Our Team
Between us, we work across many languages — the exact count is coming soon, but it's the range that lets a manuscript keep its voice all the way from source to shelf.
Biswadip Chakraborty
Director and Publisher, Antonym Global Publishing
biswadip@antonymglobalpublishing.combiswadip.ch@antonymcollection.com
Biswadip Chakraborty is a writer, engineer, and the founder of The Antonym Collections and the Antonym Council of Global Art and Literature. Director – Supplier Systems at Ford Motor Company by profession, he brings an engineer's instinct for structure and systems to the world of books. In Bengali, he is the author of four works of fiction. That writing life — lived alongside a demanding corporate career — gives him an unusually grounded understanding of what emerging writers need and what publishing can do better. The Antonym Collections, which he founded, has grown into a leading platform for translated and multilingual literature, carrying the voices of vernacular writers from South Asia and beyond to readers around the world. With Antonym Global Publishing, he extends that mission: a global home for translated literature — no matter where they are from or whatever language they first called their own. He is a vocal advocate for the thoughtful use of artificial intelligence in publishing as a way for independent imprints to work with the reach and precision that good writing deserves.
Anisuz Zaman
Director and Chief Editor
anisuz@antonymglobalpublishing.com
Anisuz Zaman is a writer, translator, and storyteller born in Bangladesh. His work stands out as pioneering in the field of direct translation between Bengali and Spanish in both directions, opening a literary bridge that for decades had depended on versions mediated through English. He has rendered into Spanish foundational works of Bengali literature such as The Boatman of the Padma by Manik Bandopadhyay, A Thousand Years by Zahir Raihan, and Black Ice by Mahmudul Haque, in addition to an anthology of contemporary Bengali short stories. In parallel, he has translated into Bengali key authors of Spanish-American literature, including Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ángeles Mastretta, and Juan Carlos Onetti. He is the author of the novel Princesa negra de dos estambres, a work that weaves together memory, migration, and intimate experience with a narrative structure that dialogues with the Latin American tradition without losing its Bengali roots.
Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
Managing Editor and co-founder, The Antonym magazine and The Antonym Collections
bishnupriya.c@antonymcollection.com
A bilingual writer and translator, she brings a unique voice to contemporary literature, seamlessly bridging Bengali and English. With an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida and a Master's in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Bishnupriya has translated short fiction, creative non-fiction, memoirs, and experimental lyrical prose, enriching the literary landscape. She has edited two anthologies of translated short stories and published her first translated novel, No One As Rano Biswas by Alokparna. Her creative experiments with hybrid forms and modern Bangla prose reflect her innovative spirit. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the prestigious DHVANI fellowship for literary translation at the Sangam House Writers Residency in December 2023, for translating short stories of Bangladeshi author Nasreen Jahan.
Jashodhara Chakraborti
Editor in Chief — Crime, Speculative Fiction and Non-Fiction
jashodhara@antonymcollection.com
Jashodhara Chakraborti is an author, translator and editor. She is a Statistics graduate from Lady Shri Ram College for Women and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Jashodhara worked in marquee firms in Information Technology before moving to writing, translating, editing and teaching. Her books for Young Adults have been published by Duckbill Books and Talking Cub. She is also the proprietor of Write Right, a boutique literary services outfit. Jashodhara has an abiding love for crime fiction and gothic horror, and hopes to curate an unputdownable list for her readers through her role at Antonym.
Dr. Chaiti Mitra
Associate Professor, Department of English, Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan College, Kolkata
Guest Faculty at West Bengal State University. Her research spans women's writing and narratives of trauma and resistance; her translation work is among the few to take on the dense narratives of Shyamal Gangopadhyay and Tilottama Majumdar. Her translated collection Chandaneswar Junction: And Other Stories is published by The Antonym Collections; her Bengali translation of Hamlet is currently staged by Swapnasandhani.
Dr. Gargi Gangopadhyay
Editor, Paper Planes Journal, published by The Antonym (Antonym Collections), Kolkata
J. J. Junieles
Country Coordinator for Colombia, Antonym Global Publishing
John Jairo Junieles — known as J. J. Junieles — is a Colombian author, journalist, lawyer, and educator based in Bogotá, whose work moves fluidly between fiction, poetry, and public life. He is the author of the novels El hombre que hablaba de Marlon Brando (2020) and Barrio Bomba (2025), alongside multiple short story collections and five books of poetry, and has taught fiction writing and screenwriting at leading Colombian universities including Universidad Nacional and Universidad Javeriana. A recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura Ciudad de Bogotá and the Premio de Cuento Ciudad de Bogotá-IDARTES, Junieles now anchors AGP's presence in the region and furthers its mission of connecting Colombian literature with readers around the world.
Rubén Mendieta
Director of Publications, Ediciones del Lirio
A Mexican editor, cultural promoter, and sociologist from UNAM, who has directed publications at Ediciones del Lirio since 1998 — steering the house through more than 200 titles across editions and co-editions. Beyond publishing, he is the founder of the Festival Internacional del Huapango Arribeño y Cultura de la Sierra Gorda de Xichú in Guanajuato, now in its 39th edition, bringing that same spirit of cross-border literary exchange to Del Lirio's collaboration with Antonym Global Publishing.
Inés López Volpe
Coordinator for Spain, Antonym Global Publishing
A Spain-based literary agent, critic, and cultural commentator, and Director de Proyecto at Agencia Literaria: de cuatro hojas, an agency representing Latin American and Spanish authors across adult, young adult, and children's literature. A dedicated advocate for literary exchange between Latin America and Spain, she shares her passion for books through her blog and YouTube channel, de cuatro hojas, featuring reviews, author interviews, and conversations with publishers and bookshops.
Mia Lecomte
Poet and Writer
An Italian poet and writer of French origin currently based in Switzerland. A translator from French, she is a known critic and editor in the field of transnational literature, and is the founder of the poetic theatre ensemble Compagnia delle poete. With The Antonym Collections, she published the collection Home Is What Is Left (2023) and Chronicles of Impossibility.
Diana María Pachón
Editor, Voices Beyond Borders (Latin America)
diana@antonymglobalpublishing.com
A writer, journalist, and audiovisual producer who has written social, cultural, and armed-conflict reportage for renowned media outlets in Colombia and other countries, and received national and international recognition for her journalistic work. She is the author, co-author, and editor of books published in her country, and a co-director, producer, and screenwriter of documentaries for television.
Mojaffor Hossain
Consulting Editor
One of the notable authors of contemporary Bangla literature. Starting his career as a journalist, he is a translator at the Bangla Academy, Dhaka. He has eight books of short stories and multiple novels which, in recent years, have attracted much acclaim from both general readers and literary critics. His signature style is using native realities as his settings and giving them magic-realistic or surrealistic colors. He has received some of the prestigious awards for his fiction, such as Exim Bank-Anyadin Humayun Ahmed Award, Abul Hasan Sahitya Award, and Kali O Kalam Award. He has also been awarded Arani Sahitya Puraskar and Boishakhi Television Award for his stories.